Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Inclusive top quark pair production at the LHC proceeds primarily via gluon fusion. Decays of the polarized top pairs through various particle and jet channels have strong angular dependences reflecting the top and anti-top polarizations that produce a variety of correlations among the decay products - particles and jets. Those correlations are determined by the spin dependent gluon distributions from the unpolarized colliding protons. Combinations of the gluon distributions, either polarized or unpolarized, can be accessed experimentally through angular dependences of top decay products, as will be shown, along with preliminary predictions from a model of gluon distributions.
DOI: 10.22323/1.469.0240
Author: Gary R. Goldstein
Institution: Tufts University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4405853564